~ Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form. ~  ~ Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ~ ~ All human activity is prompted by desire. ~ ~ Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know. ~ ~ Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent ~ ~ The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. ~ ~ Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. ~ ~ The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ~ ~ This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind ~ ~
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ~ ~ It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a
great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future
dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. ~ ~ Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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